Dali completed his PhD degree in Operational Research from The University of Southampton. The PhD scholarship is supported by School of Mathematics and School of Management. He also obtained a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Engineering from Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
Dali’s research experience is in domains of stochastic optimization and simulation, Nash equilibrium problem, and energy policy and markets. He joined Centre for Health Services Research in April 2011. He hopes to contribute his related research experience to healthcare sectors, and broaden his research topics in the area of optimization. Before joining the centre, he has worked as a research fellow in Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore. Currently, he is a member of Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), The International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He was a co-organizer of an invited session in The 8th International Conference on Computational Management Science (CMS2011), 28th –30th April 2011, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. He is also a reviewer for several operations research journals.